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Today in entertainment history: Nov. 29

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: Frank Sinatra, wearing a bandage and patch over the eye injured during filming of a movie battle scene, is pictured with actress Natalie Wood and her Husband Robert Wagner, at a party observing her 21st birthday and 17th year as a motion picture actress in Hollywood in 1959. On this day in 1959, Sinatra won a Grammy; on this same date in 1981, Wood (center), died at the age of 43. Photo: Associated Press

A look at Hollywood’s Nov 29 headlines from years past.

1959: The Record of the Year Grammy Award went to Bobby Darin for “Mack The Knife.” Frank Sinatra’s “Come Dance With Me” won the Album of the Year award. Sinatra didn’t show up to the ceremony, supposedly because he had gotten shut out at the very first Grammys, only six months earlier.

1969: John Lennon was convicted of marijuana possession and was fined.

1976: Jerry Lee Lewis shot his bass player, Norman “Butch” Owens, twice in the chest while trying to hit a soda bottle. Lewis was charged with shooting a firearm within the city limits.

1979: The four original members of Kiss performed together for what they thought was the last time. They reunited in 1996.

1981: Actress Natalie Wood drowned off Santa Catalina Island, California, at age 43. The death was ruled accidental.

1986: Actor Cary Grant died in Davenport, Iowa, at age 82.

1995: Singer Sammy Hagar married Kari Karte on a mountain in northern California.

2001: Musician George Harrison died in Los Angeles after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 58.